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Weak pronoun
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Weak pronouns are helping pronouns many languages have for easily explaining the possessive status of something, to whom something belongs. Many languages have different ways to express this:
-English has distinctive words for all of these: my, mine;
-Germanic languages and Romance languages have the same, but inflect them for gender: (Spanish example) mío, mía, míos and mías (mine, in the masculine singular, feminine singular, masculine plural, and feminine plural form, respectively);
Some Asian languages have a helping word next to the pronoun in question;
-Japanese: 私の (Watashi no)(I)('s, possessive marker);
-Chinese: 我的 (Wǒ de) (I) (possessive);
Other languages, such as Macanese only have one word for I, my and mine.